From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: x-selection-exists-p vs x-get-selection Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 16:23:00 -0700 Message-ID: <000a01c8ae3d$cbf4df40$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <002501c8ad70$af83c510$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <481E1FD7.1040208@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209943446 1216 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2008 23:24:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 23:24:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Jason Rumney'" , "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 05 01:24:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JsnZ4-0005t9-Qv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 01:24:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50675 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JsnYN-0002WP-2M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 May 2008 19:23:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JsnYK-0002WI-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 May 2008 19:23:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JsnYJ-0002Vx-8e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 May 2008 19:23:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36292 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JsnYI-0002Vu-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 May 2008 19:23:31 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JsnY7-0008HD-Oi; Sun, 04 May 2008 19:23:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m44NNFDi018551; Sun, 4 May 2008 18:23:16 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m44NJCBU028872; Sun, 4 May 2008 17:23:15 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3665591081209943363; Sun, 04 May 2008 16:22:43 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.89.88) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 04 May 2008 16:22:43 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AciuKBQlcyf9vFvcSRKRcXbfGgg75gACQfdA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 In-reply-to: <481E1FD7.1040208@gnu.org> X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:96460 Archived-At: > Also, I think we support primary and secondary selection within Emacs > even on Windows, Thank you. That is what I was talking about. I really don't care much whether it is officially called a secondary selection on Windows or not. The point is that it _is_ available to Windows users. > but there is no standard way to support this between > programs (though Cygwin X probably has a convention we could > follow if someone feels this is important enough to work on). Thanks, I didn't know that part. For my purposes, just being able to define it in Emacs and use it in Emacs (on Windows) is enough. But yes, what you mention could also be interesting. (Frankly, I've never used the secondary selection outside Emacs.)